CHOICES
Follow the good examples (Philippians 3:17). Weep for the enemies of the cross (Philippians 3:18-19). As citizens of Heaven, wait eagerly (Philippians 3:20-21). Ephesians 3:1-12. IT IS NO SECRET! You might want to begin the message by reading the words to the song, 'It Is No Secret' by Stuart Hamblen. He was a song writer and singer who came to know Christ as Savior. One night he was at a party, and Stuart made the comment 'It is no secret what God can do'.
- Present salvation for both Jew and Gentile — hear and believe the gospel, vv. God’s future purpose with Israel, Chapter 11. Remnant regathered as a nation and redeemed. Remnant of Israel finding salvation, vv. Remainder of Israel blinded, vv. Reason for setting aside the nation Israel — salvation of the.
- Present salvation for both Jew and Gentile — hear and believe the gospel, vv. God’s future purpose with Israel, Chapter 11. Remnant regathered as a nation and redeemed. Remnant of Israel finding salvation, vv. Remainder of Israel blinded, vv. Reason for setting aside the nation Israel — salvation of the.
- Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Philippians 3:17-21
INTRODUCTION
It is impossible to live without choices. We choose to sleep or stay awake. We choose to work or not. We choose to go to church or not. We choose to drive this car or that car. We choose to fish or hunt (or both!). We choose to shop or not (Not!) And in the matter of choosing we have one other choice: to keep God as the priority of our life or to keep things and others as the priority of our life.
Surprised to see an empty seat at the Super Bowl, a diehard fan remarked about it to a woman sitting nearby. “It was my husband’s,” the woman explained, “But he died.” The fan stated he was so sorry to hear of the death of her husband and then said, “Yet I’m really surprised that another relative or friend didn’t jump at the chance to take the seat reserved for him.” “Beats me,” she said. “They all insisted on going to the funeral.”
Our priorities determine the choices we make in life. The choices the make determine the course, the direction of the rest of our lives. That is why it is so important that young people make that choices that, in the long run, will keep them closest to God. That is why it is so important that older people do the same. Ultimately our choices determine our eternal destiny.
This is the first European church. The choices before the Philippian Christians are the same choices that every generation of Christians have had to make for two thousand years. These choices will also be faced by every Christian until Jesus comes.
THEME:AS WE LIVE OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WE ARE FACED WITH OUR:
I. GODLY EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW vs. 17
A. We Will Chose Role Models To Follow
1. We should follow godly family role models
2. Should not family follow the same role model?
3. Should not family act together and alike?
B. We Follow In Groups, Not As Individuals
1. Be followers together of me
a. Not arrogant self-esteem
b. Spiritual walk vs. sinful walk
c. Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. I Corinthians 11:1
2. You have us as an example
a. Not just Paul
b. Timothy
c. Silas
d. Other godly Christians
3. Wrong examples of imitating
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a. Those sinners who are the role models of the world
b. Those Christians who live contrary to the Word of God
c. Those Christians who refuse to live for God
d. Those Christians who live nominal lives
4. Who should be our focus?
a. Those who are people of the Book
b. Those who evidence the power of God in their lives
c. So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. I Thessalonians 1:7
C. Followers Together
1. Greek – mimic
2. An imitator of others
3. The only New Testament occurrence
4. Together
5. Never the “Long Ranger”
6. Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. Proverbs 11:14
7. We must walk together in harmony
NOTE: Sail ships sailing together
a. They don’t collide with one another
b. They don’t steal the wind from their neighbor’s sails
D. Mark Those Who Walk Right
1. Greek – scope
a. Telescope
b. Microscope
2. “Scope out”
a. Consider
b. Direct one’s attention to
c. Look at
d. Observe
e. Take heed
3. Walk
a. Conduct one’s self
b. Make use of opportunities
c. Make one’s way
d. Progress
e. Regulate one’s life
f. To pass one’s life
E. Use Them As An Ensample
1. An example to be imitated
2. Form
3. Pattern
4. Print
T.S.AS WE LIVE OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WE ARE FACED WITH OUR:
I. GODLY EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW
II. UNGODLY EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW vs. 18-19
A. The Problem Of Ungodly Examples
NOTE: Definition of “ungodly:” God is not in the equation of their life
1. Some are not worth imitating
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3. We must not be gullible
B. Every Person Has A Walk
NOTE: Same word as in vs. 17
1. The choices of walk
a. In honor
b. In disgrace
2. These are probably Christians
a. Not pagans
b. Not Judaizers
NOTE: Many “walk”
C. Our Response To Those Who Refuse To Walk Ungodly – “Weep”
1. Lament
a. Weeping as the sign of pain and grief for the thing signified
b. Grief
2. Those who mourn for the dead
a. Mary of Bethany wept because her brother was dead
b. Mary Magdalene wept because Jesus was dead
c. Paul wept because church members were spiritually dead, not alive in Christ
NOTE: The only record of Paul ever crying in the Bible
D. God’s Response To The Ungodly – Enemies
NOTE: He that is not with me is against me … Luke 11:23
1. Definition of an enemy
a. Foe
b. Hateful
c. Hostile
d. Opposing God in one’s mind
e. Used of people as at odds with God because of their sin
2. Two ways to be enemies of the cross
a. Actively oppose
1) The message
2) The messenger
b. Hindered those who wanted to live by the cross
NOTE: Song, The old rugged cross made the difference
E. How We Betray God
1. We talk one way; we live another way
2. We act one way; we internally want to act another way
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4. We are stumbling blocks to:
a. Babes in Christ
b. Backslidden Christians
c. Godly Christians
d. Those outside of Christ
NOTE: We are either missionaries for
a. God
b. Satan
F. The Effect Of Being An Enemy
1. Not just our enemies
2. Not just God’s enemies
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3. Enemies of the Cross
4. By their life-style making the cross ineffective
a. For Christians
b. For lost to get saved
NOTE: The friends of the cross do not love the world
NOTE: The enemies of the cross
a. Love the world (Demas)
b. Love the things of the world more than the things of God
c. Love to think more on the world than God
G. The Five Characteristics Of The Enemies Of God vs. 18-19
1. Their opposition to the cross (Christian living) vs. 18
2. Their end is destruction
a. Perdition
b. Ruin
c. Utter destruction
d. Waste
e. For the wages of sin is death … Romans 6:23
f. The destruction that consists of eternal misery in hell
3. Their god is their belly
a. Appetite
b. Gluttony
c. The innermost part of a person
d. The seat of thought, feeling, choice
4. Their glory is their shame
a. Glory
1) Dignity
2) Excellence
3) Honour
4) Opinion, whether good or bad concerning someone
5) Praise
b. Shame
1) A thing to be ashamed of
2) Disgrace
3) Dishonesty with God
4) Dishonour
5. Their mind is the earth
NOTE: Mind – way of thinking
a. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? John 3:12
b. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth Philippians 2:10
c. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James 3:15
H. What Enemies Of The Cross Do
1. They walk and talk against the Cross
NOTE: They do not live by the cross; they do not encourage others to come to the cross or live by the cross
2. They go to their end – destruction
3. Their god is their appetite (belly)
4. They take pride in things that should be their shame
NOTE: Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness … Isaiah 5:20
NOTE: The goals of Americans
a. Self
b. Sex
c. Selfish desires
NOTE: Biblical conversion
a. Salvation of the soul
b. Salvation of the mind
c. Salvation of personal standards
d. Salvation of life goals
e. Salvation of discipleship
I. What Is Impossible Before Salvation Is Increasingly Possible After Salvation
1. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. Job 2:9
2. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. Job 2:3
3. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. Psalm 25:21
T.S.AS WE LIVE OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WE ARE FACED WITH OUR:
I. GODLY EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW
II. UNGODLY EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW
III. ULTIMATE EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW vs. 20-21
A. We Have A Different Lifestyle Than The World vs. 20
1. Conversation
a. Only occurrence in the New Testament
b. Citizenship
c. Behavior
d. The laws by which citizens live under a government
e. For our homeland is in heaven
B. Why Heaven Is Our Home
1. The record of our birth is in heaven
NOTE: Just as our birth certificate in is the county where we were born
2. Our citizenship is in the country where we were born
3. We obey the laws of our country
4. No matter where a citizen resides, thoughts of home are always near
NOTE: Christian citizenship thinks in two directions
a. Home and God
b. Fellow Christians
C. We Will Be Changed vs. 21
1. Change
a. Greek – metaschematizo
b. Metastasize – The change to cancer cells
c. Transform
2. The Greek view of the body
a. A prison
b. Death is when we are delivered from prison
3. The Christian view of the body
a. It is destined for eternity
b. It should be treated accordingly
c. Our earthly existence of our body is not all there is
d. It will be transformed for eternity
e. Our spirit is already in a resurrection with Christ; our body awaits that change
f. Our body is not now suited for heaven
NOTE: To Paul our body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Our body (temple) is polluted by sin.
NOTE: As Christ will remove the Tribulation Temple with the pollution of the Anti-Christ and make the Millennial Temple, He will take our sin-polluted bodies (temples) and make sinless temples
4. Vile
a. Humiliated because of sin
b. Made low Hardline bcaa matrix 4 1 1.
5. Glorious
a. Opposite of vile
b. Brightness
c. Dignity
d. Excellent
e. Honored
f. Magnificence
g. Splendor
D. There Will Be A Working In Us
1. Working
a. Greek – energeia
b. In the New Testament used only of superhuman power
2. Because He is able
a. Greek – dunamai
b. Working – energy
c. Able – dynamite
NOTE: The energy of Christ’s dynamite!
3. There will be a subduing in us
a. Be in subjection unto
b. Put in subjection under
c. Put under
d. A Greek military term meaning “to arrange (troop divisions) in a military fashion under the command of a leader”
E. A Clear Contrast
1. We vs. They
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2. Heaven vs. Earthly things
3. Glorious future vs. Destruction
4. Shame vs. Glory
NOTE: This passage reminds us that despite appearances often to the contrary, God is in control, that our salvation is not just for today but forever, that Christ is coming again, and that at His coming we inherit the final glory that belongs to Christ alone – and to those who are His
NOTE: Our attitude toward our personal spiritual life
a. Not like the citizens of Laodicea – lukewarm
b. Not like the citizens of Thessalonica – nervousness
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c. Like the citizens Smyrna – faithfulness until we die
CONCLUSION
AS WE LIVE OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE WE ARE FACED WITH OUR:
I. GODLY EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW
II. UNGODLY EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW
III. ULTIMATE EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW
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